Founder and director of the West Virginia Folklife Program, dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation and support of the state’s cultural heritage and living traditions

Freelance Writer

November 2011-present

Writer and media producer for publications including NPR, Ecotone, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Southern Cultures, Lucky Peach, The Bitter Southerner, and the Southern Foodways Alliance’s James Beard Award-winning Gravy; Co-founder and writer, Nothing in the House: A Pie Blog

Adjunct Faculty / Marshall University Graduate Humanities Program

August 2017-present, South Charleston, WV

History and Theory of the Arts, Fall 2017

Marketing Coordinator / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

July 2012-October 2015, Washington, D.C.

Managed multimedia communications and social media fornon-profit record label of the Smithsonian Institution;

Curated and moderated demonstrations, performances, and panels at national and regional folk festivals; Coordinated multimedia communications and social media for festivals and National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Awards Fellowships

INTERNSHIPS

American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, 2009

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2008

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Folk Art PA Apprenticeship panelist, 2017

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress Henry Reed Fund Award recipient, 2016

"Building a Broom by Feel: An Interview with James Shaffer" audio documentary and video documentary for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and the West Virginia Folklife Program. Screened at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress' "Reel Folk: Cultural Explorations on Film Event". Aired on Inside Appalachia podcast, West Virginia Morning, and the West Virginia Channel, 2017.

Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project for the Southern Foodways Alliance and West Virginia Folklife Program, 2017.

"Never Whack: George O'Neal of Lil' Farm" audio documentary. In Scene on Radio podcast by John Biewen, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. 2016.